Hi all,
im trying to create a new VM via SOAP. Ive managed to log in / query existing vm's / logoff, but i've not been able to create a new VM so far. this is the SOAP request im trying to send.
Im out of ideas, im guessing ive got the right host and folder handle ?
Please advise.
This may be a little hard to debug as the operation failed may be for many reasons. Yes, we need to improve the error messages.
I would suggest the following:
Setting logging on the esx server to trivia. For that:
log into your esx server
cd /etc/vmware/hostd
edit config.xml and change the entry debug"
From VI Client, then do the create vm task
CTL-C the tail operation.
Review the debug file, and you should see the XML syntax for a successful run. Edit your SOAP call appropriately.
H
Will this action shut down any running VM's on the ESX Server ?
I just looked at the config.xml file.
The loglevel is set to verbose, is this sufficient or does trivia give more info ?
You may want to try to log at verbose and see if the xml call is recorded. Restarting host-agent doesn't affect current running vm's, it simply "blinks" the management connection.
Hi,
i set the level to trivia, restarted the mgmt-vmware service and did a tail on the hostd.log file. Then i created a new vm with the gui.
In the resulting debug file i searched for XML information, but was not able to find any. Am i literally looking for a XML structure inside the debug output or what should i look for exactly ?
Regards
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